Mulligatawny / Butternut Pumpkin & Black Bean Enchiladas / Curried Eggplant Soup

Blog Post & Recipe: Mulligatawny Reboot

Meet my favorite chicken soup in the entire world.

Blog Post & Recipe: Butternut Squash and Black Bean Enchiladas

I can’t begin to explain how delicious they are. I mean, sweet butternut squash with spicy enchilada sauce? That doesn’t even sound good! But they are amazing!

Blog Post & Recipe: Recipe: Curried Eggplant Soup...Eat.Live.Be

It's sweet and spicy and has a lot of staying power due to the white beans that are pureed into it and all the fiber from the eggplant and apple that are mixed in there as well. (Yes, there's an apple in it. Trust me. It's a good move.)

Baked Sweet Potato with Black Beans / Spinach Egg Drop Soup / Halal Cart-Style Chicken & Rice with White Sauce

Blog Post & Recipe: Baked Sweet Potato with Black Beans

You can also bake the potatoes in the oven for a crispier skin (don’t forget to eat the skin – it’s full of nutrients!)

Blog Post & Recipe: Sickies

Swim in a bowl of chicken broth accentuated with ribbons of velvety, beaten egg and shreds of spinach. Let the bright green onions make your taste buds sing.

Spinach Egg Drop Soup

Blog Post & Recipe: Serious Eats' Halal Cart-Style Chicken and Rice with White Sauce

Manhattan is home to many smells, but perhaps the most delicious is the chicken-y, savory scent that emanates from from the city's countless halal carts. Serving lunch to late-night, these carts dish up a container full of chicken rice that tastes like nothing else, crave-worthy and totally singular ... Marinated in oregano, lemon, and coriander, chicken thighs are browned, chopped into chunks and served over a pile turmeric-yellow rice.

Caribbean Bean Puree / Chicken in Beer / Smoky Eggplant & Lamb Pide

Blog Post & Recipe: Caribbean Bean Puree

The ingredient list for this recipe may seem a little strange. Black beans and bananas? You are just going to have to trust me on this one.

Recipe: Chicken in beer

Takes about 2 hours to prepare, but well worth it. The flavors are deep and substantial. I added more carrots than the original recipe called for, but I like eating them – they were saturated and drenched in the cooking juices.

Blog Post & Recipe: Smoky Aubergine and Lamb Pide

Pide are rather similar to lamacun* and are apparently sold on every street corner in their homeland. I topped mine with aubergine (which I blackened on the gas hob before scooping out the smoky flesh); lamb, minced; spices like coriander, cumin and cinnamon; onion, garlic and a little tomato.

Black Bean Spanakopita / Very Tasty Gravy / Quick Chicken Vindaloo

Blog Post & Recipe: Vegan Black Beans Spanakopita

This spanakopita was made last March, during the fasting period of Lent, so there are no eggs or cheese in it. When fasting you need some extra protein, so I made this spanakopita using black giant beans and flaxseeds

Blog Post & Recipe: How to make a very tasty gravy

The trick? Don’t rely on the turkey’s or duck’s neck and giblets. Make a gravy base with lots of bones, vegetables, spices and herbs. I wasn’t even a fan of celery until I made my version of Jamie Oliver’s get-ahead gravy. Now, I’m a convert.

Blog Post & Recipe: chicken vindaloo: how to make curry with only 5 ingredients [5 ingredients | 10 minutes]

8 tips for 5 ingredients success

There are 2 ways to get tender meat in a curry. Either gently simmering in the sauce for hours OR stir frying finely sliced pieces of meat over a high heat to brown the outside of the meat, then removing the meat from the pan, making the sauce and adding the meat at the end to just heat though.

UK Mexican Food / Three Salsa Recipes

Article & Recipes: Someone named Thomasina Miers in the UK has put together a book of Tex-Mex recipes and both the Guardian and the Times have agreed to promote it: Thomasina Miers' simple Mexican recipes and How to cook like a Mexican.

The first link:

Steak Burritos ... Black beans ... Coconut ceviche ... How to eat a taco ... Torta (the Mexican club sandwich) ... The great Mexican breakfast ... Tlayudas (Oaxacan pizzas)

The second link (you'll need to click around to find the recipes -- look in the box below the article):

The perfect guacamole ... Churros and chocolate ... Ham and cheese empanadas ... Chorizo, potato and thyme quesadillas ... Fresh tomato salsa

Meanwhile, at the New York Times ...

Article & Recipes: Rediscovering Salsa, the Soul of Mexico in a Bowl

Salsa is a cornerstone of the Mexican kitchen, a contrast for a repetitive diet of corn, squash and beans. Just as French cooks understand that béarnaise sauce suits some dishes, hollandaise others, Mexican cooks know salsas have different qualities and functions.

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Recipe: Salsa Ranchera
Recipe: Salsa Verde
Recipe: Salsa Roja

Swede Tart / Steak Slice with Lemon & Thyme / 10 Pumpkin Dishes

Blog Post & Recipe: Swedeaphobia Cure

Here is a delicious recipe for one of UK’s most unpopular vegetables.

The blogger doesn't name the recipe, but it looks like a savoury swede/rutabaga tart with a layer of crumbs on top

Blog Post & Recipe: Have you ever marinated your meat after cooking it?!

Nigella's Steak Slice with Lemon & Thyme

Serve up the sliced steak with a bit of the marinade drizzled over the top. And your au naturale sweet potato...with just a slathering of moisturizer.

Blog Post & Recipe: Top 10 Pumpkin Dishes

Pumpkin Pie ... Pumpkin Puree ... Toasted Pumpkin Seeds ... Pumpkin Pie Milkshake ... Pumpkin Pie Ice Cream ... Pumpkin Caramel Cheesecake Turtle Bread ... Pumpkin Butter ... Pumpkin Pie Cheesecake ... Savoury Pumpkin Pie (Kolokithopita) ... Pumpkin and Black Bean Soup

Butchers. Black Bean & Goat Cheese Quesadilla. Lemony Zucchini Goat Cheese Pizza.

Blog Post & Recipe: Black Bean and Goat Cheese Quesadilla

The beans are creamy and the tomatoes gives the mixture a bit of tartness.

Article: Chop and change

To stay a cut above the supermarkets, traditional butchers have had to reinvent themselves, writes Richard Cornish.

Blog Post & Recipe: lemony zucchini goat cheese pizza

Seeing as I’ve been buying yellow and green zucchini like it was going out of style, and the basil was right at the next table this week, and I’ve been on a bit of a lemon bender ...